David McCord Quotes

The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

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• Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Students
  • Laws
  • Impact

• My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Parents
  • Movement
  • Students

• Travel teaches as much as books.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Travel
  • Books
  • Teaches

• During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.

  

  Dan Webster
  • School
  • Year
  • Students

• I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Focus
  • Coach
  • Much

• Let students use technologies in the classroom.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Use
  • Students
  • Classroom

• I love the most the students with troubled lives.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Love
  • Students
  • Troubled

• Good tests can help teachers determine how their students are performing and identify the areas in which their students need assistance. Like an X-ray, however, tests can diagnose, but they cannot cure.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Good
  • Help
  • Students

• The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

  

  James A. Leach
  • Knowledge
  • Students
  • High School

• The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Men
  • Why
  • Art

• Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Express

• ...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Wall
  • Standing
  • Saws

• The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Fear
  • Thoughts
  • Miracles

• Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • May
  • Job
  • Help

• When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is 99% certain that it will go to hell. So you should not become that. If you study economics on Oslo, 99% of all students will do very well and 1% will reach the top.

  

  Odd Nerdrum
  • Success
  • Artist
  • Study

• I'm a decent man who exports flowers.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • Men
  • Flower
  • Decent

• At the time of Indian independence, I was a student in London and we the students, Indian students, celebrated the moment with great joy. I was exhilarated, no doubt, but the shadow of two events fell upon the jollifications. First, a sense of disappointment that the imperialist objective of dividing India has been achieved. And second, the communal carnage which took place in India cast another shadow on it.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Joy
  • Moment
  • Students

• I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

  

  William Westmoreland
  • Students
  • Captains
  • Adequate

• I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

  

  Erin Gruwell
  • Learned
  • Teaching
  • Students

• We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • God
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Love
  • Old
  • Lives

• Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger

  

  Sara Evans
  • Stronger
  • Weakest

• Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Forget

• The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

  

  David McCord
  • Students
  • Teaches
  • Standing